Monthly goal: $750

Weekly total: $184.50

Running total: $634.82

Kroger: $143.81

More back-to-school stocking up! It sounds crazy, but I am even planning ahead to make a copycat Cracker Barrel Hashbrown Casserole for Thanksgiving, and picked up those cheap Ore-Ida frozen hashbrowns.

We skipped Green Bean Delivery this week but will probably get it next week.

Monthly goal: $600

Weekly total: $143.81

Running total: $450.32

Kroger: $142.45

School starts for us next week and I’ll have to start getting up at 7 again. Do I have to? Yep, I make lunch easy the first month. You’re talking to the person who did not take any classes before 930 or 10 am in college. I don’t mind making my mornings easier as long as it’s in the budget.

Monthly goal: $600

Weekly total: $164.06

Running total: $164.06

Dorothy Lane: $ 88.84

We knew we didn’t “need” much, since we still have massive amounts of food we are working through. I decided to splurge on something from Dorothy Lane, our expensive local specialty store. Fancy sugar cookies, fancy honey mustard, Boar’s Head turkey pastrami, Amish grown veggies, dill pickle dip, and guac.

Food from my in-laws: Free

We drove 5 hours north to visit my in-laws in Cleveland this past weekend, and as usual, my mother-in-law bought boatloads of food for the grandkids and sent it all home with us. We are very appreciative!

Amazon: $14.99 (and got a $14.99 credit back)

Amazon is running a promotion where you pay $14.99 to get a household essentials sample pack and get a $14.99 credit back to spend on those same household essentials. I ordered a 12-pack of Clorox toilet bowl cleaner and my credit plus part of a gift card meant it was $0 out of pocket.

Kroger: $58.04

I pulled together my Clicklist on my phone while we were out of town and set the pickup for this evening. I mostly took advantage of the stock-up prices on apple juice, peanut butter,and butter,since my stockpile is getting a little low. I prefer to buy apple juice when it is $1 to $1.50, peanut butter when it is $1 or less, and butter when it is $2.50 per pound or less. I am just about out of all the butter I bought and froze around Thanksgiving and Christmas.

They sent us home with free Reese’s peanut butter cups and a Hershey bar tonight. I also completed the email survey for a bonus 50 fuel points.

Green Bean Delivery: $66.95 after bottle return credits.

I wasn’t planning on buying so much this week, but I got a $5 off our next order coupon if I spent $70, so I got some bison stew meat and my favorite Smoking Goose Uncured Bacon. We also tried the eleven-grain bread from a local Cincinnati baker called Sixteen Bricks. It was so good and I am getting it again for sure!

Kroger Clicklist Order: $86.57

Monthly goal: $600

Weekly total: $107.53

Running total: $107.53

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We're a family of five with a few lofty goals: pay cash for graduate school without incurring debt, pay off our mortgage in 10 years or less, and be ready to retire within 15 years. With three young children and only one full-time income, it will require a hefty dose of planning and frugality, and a smidge of ingenuity. Can we do it?